Database IS ready

[Kyna]

I've worked around the problem of multiple surnames by giving my households double barrelled names in the database, combining the family surname with the wife's maiden surname.  For example, I have three Gladstone families in one neighbourhood.  Lucas Gladstone married Kari McAuley.  So in the database I've recorded the household name as Gladstone-McAuley.  The others are recorded as Gladstone-Shankel and Gladstone-Frost.  The sims themselves are still surnamed Gladstone.

Actually I go into SimPE and rename my families (but not the sims) to match.  I rarely use the familyfunds cheat, but I'm hoping giving my families different names will make working with the familyfunds cheat easier.

I suppose I could have achieved the same effect by using Gladstone1, Gladstone2, etc.  But I grew up in a country town where people gossip in the style of 'Lucas Gladstone, the one who married the McAuley girl, well he .... ', so this seemed more natural to me.

[skandelouslala]

I am not sure if this has been mentioned so forgive me if it has or forgive me if I'm missing something but I have a suggestion that I would love to see if it could be worked out.

Okay how do I explain this lol

I would like to be able to group my sims by neighborhood.  I know you can put what neighborhood they are located in..but you have to scroll through EVERY sim in every other neighborhood that you previously entered in order to get to the sim you are looking for.  For somebody who plays multiple 'hoods and multiple families, this can get a bit frusturating, especially as the # of sims you enter grows.  Same thing with families...I would like to be able to click on a family name or something and have the database be able to draw up that family.  I don't know if that one is possible or for that matter if the other one is either..but it would be really nice to see down the road.

I was taking a look at your site and in the discussion section it looks like somebody has mentioned this issue about the 'hoods so yeah..I think that is the same thing that I'm getting out.  Their solution to what they do is interesting and I might have to try their method for now.

Thanks. I'm enjoying this program by the way and can't wait to see future updates.

[Kyna]

but you have to scroll through EVERY sim in every other neighborhood that you previously entered in order to get to the sim you are looking for

The search button allows you to pull out only the records for a particular neighbourhood, or whatever combination of data you choose to search.  Much less scrolling, particularly as you can search on several items at once - such as blond adult romance sims in neighbourhood MyTown with a turn-on of red hair (if, for example, you're looking for a date for your red-haired romance sim who likes blonds). You can then flick backwards and forwards using "previous sim" and "next sim" through the sims that matched your search criteria.  The reports generated are based on the sims that matched your search criteria.

It took me a while of using the database before I figured this out - at first I was annoyed because I couldn't work out how to print a report for just one household. 

I understand wanting to have different neighbourhoods totally separate in the database as I'm the person who posted on Pegasys' forum about it.  I use separate folders for each neighbourhood, each one with the database unzipped into it.

[Pegasys]

Yes as Kyna mentioned, the Search button is very helpful in that regard - also the Household browser lets you first select the Neighborhood, then the household. I will look at easier ways to deal with different neighborhoods for the future. I am getting close to releasing the next beta version, I expect it will be this week. But already I have a few ideas for the release after that. 

One issue is that I have been spending more time on the database than playing the game and I have really only played in one neighborhood.  So I need to get busy populating another 'hood and see what happens when one has more and more Sims in multiple neighborhoods. I love having a charitable excuse for playing the game 

[skandelouslala]

Aha..the search button

LOL..sorry I'm still trying to figure out how to work everything.  I'm still just on the basics of entering sims and haven't really generated any reports or anything like that..now that I know about the search button and have figured it out...yes..that solves a few of my issues in and of itself lol

I think that will also help with the finding particular families and what not as well.

Thanks for the help!